Scrap or sample book



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDl/VARD ML ANDERSON, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

SCRAP OR SAMPLE BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,817, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed September '7, 1897. Serial No. 650,769. (No model.)

To a'ZZ whom it may con/cera.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD M. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scrap or Sample Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of scrap or sample books which is used for cloth samples,invoices,orprescriptions. When opened, the leaves Will lie out flat on the desk or table and expose the samples, pictures, invoices, or prescriptions to full view.

The object of my invention is to produce a stronger and more dnrable book for this purpose than is now made, which is fully shown in accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a plan of the book with zo the leaves open. VFig. 2 represents a book closed up. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section of same. v

In the drawings similar letters refer to similar parts.

A is the leaves of a book.

B is the wooden back O, the book covers or bindings; D, the binding-strips; E, the holding nails or brads.

In constructing the book several sheets of paper or cloth are folded to form the leaves A, to which the samples, pictures, invoices, or other articles are attached. On the inner side of this fold in the sheets of paper or other material is placed the metal strip D, of any suit` 3 5 able width, said strip D being longer than the sheet. It is then formed over the ends of the several sheets A, as shown at F, clamping them all together. The several sheets A are then placed in the proper positions on the 40 Wood back B, (which has been previously formed to suitable shape,) and the sheets are secured to said back B by brads or nails E, being of sufficient length to allow them to be clenched on the opposite side of the back B, whereby the several sheets forming the book are firmly secured to the back B, the ends of each section of the several sheets being reinforced by the metal strips D, which are formed over the ends of the Sheet and of sufficient length to allow the brads E in end to pass through both strips of metal D, firmly holding all together.

The binding or outer cover O is made up to suit the purpose required in the usual method of all bookbinding.

The metal strips D can be made of any suitable material and covered with linen or cloth, if desired. The back B may also be made of any material desired-wood, fiber, or paper.

Thus it will be seen that a book made up in this manner can be lighter and far more durable than in the present method of stitching the leaves together with thread and gluing the same on the back.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- o In a scrap -book, the binding-strips D, placed on the inside of the folds of the leaves A, the ends of said strips being formed over 7o the edge of the several leaves, clamping them together, said leaves with clamp being secured to the back B, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Sign ed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 3d day of September, A. D. 1897.

EDXVARD M. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN B. ANDERsoN, BENJ. A. DARE. 

